Re: [d-i manual] repetitious para

2004-02-24 Thread John Buttery
* "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-24 13:15:08 +0100]: > Or perhaps more the _packaging_. Debian has lots and lots of software > packaged, most of which is of extremely good quality. The Debian > policy is IMO a lot more important than using a specific package > system. Yeah,

Re: [d-i manual] repetitious para

2004-02-23 Thread John Buttery
* Miroslav Kure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-02-23 18:07:50 +0100]: > (BTW, these days every other major distribution offers ported apt-get > or have some similar tool like urpmi. Do you think we should weaken > the wording "most distinguishes" a bit?) IMO the biggest feature that distinguishes dis

Re: I'm interested in helping with the installer "help text"

2004-01-30 Thread John Buttery
orrect it with a text editor, then (at least for the first ones) > repost it there (if possible with a diff). For the first files, this > will allow us to share points of view about some user input > choices. OK. Is "diff -u" the preferred format? -- John ! Buttery! UNIX - The OS where you can throw the manual on the keyboard www.io.c! and still get a valid command. om/~john! signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: I'm interested in helping with the installer "help text"

2004-01-29 Thread John Buttery
* Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-29 22:26:42 -0500]: > In almost all cases, d-i should just make the safe and correct default > _be_ the default, instead of resorting to documenting it in the > description. Maybe there are one or two exceptions. I think that is the case (that the safe an

Re: I'm interested in helping with the installer "help text"

2004-01-29 Thread John Buttery
* Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-01-29 17:33:28 +0100]: > (CC'ed just in case you aren't subscribed to -boot) Don't you have to be subscribed to post? In any case, yes, I'm subscribed. > And, given your name, you're an english native spearker, aren't you? Definitely. I'm also

I'm interested in helping with the installer "help text"

2004-01-27 Thread John Buttery
Hello...I'm pretty much a rank newbie when it comes to contributing to Debian, but I'd really like to give something back to the community. Unfortunately I'm not a coder...but I have been told that I'm good at explaining complicated concepts in simple terms, so if there's any need for updates to